New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced on Wednesday that a man named Frank Robert James, 62, has been upgraded from a “person of interest” to a “suspect” just hours before authorities arrested him in connection with Tuesday’s subway shooting.
According to the NYPD, the shooting occurred “inside an ‘N’ line subway car at 36th St & 4th Ave subway station causing serious injuries to 10 people.”
Disturbing videos have been found on the suspect’s social media expressing racist views against white people and paranoid rants about “race war.”
Discussing the war in Ukraine on his YouTube, James claimed that the conflict would lead to a race war and attempts to exterminate black people.
“They’re white; you’re not. They’re doing that to each other? What do they think they’re going to do to you?” Breitbart News quoted James as saying in a video now unavailable on the platform. “It’s just a matter of time before these white motherf——s say, ‘Hey listen, enough is enough, these n—-s gotta go.’ What’re you going to do? You gonna fight. And guess what? You gonna die.”
“The whole world is against you. And you’re against your f—ing self. So why should you be alive again is the f—ing question. Why should a n—er be alive on this planet? Besides to pick cotton or chop sugar cane or tobacco,” he further stated. “And so the message to me is: I should have gotten a gun, and just started shooting motherf—ers.”
The suspect in separate videos ranted about homelessness in the New York City subways and expressed his desire to kill people and “watch them die.”
James has also argued that “white people and Black people should not have any contact with each other,” and made a paranoid accusation that a black holocaust was about to begin at the hands of white people in the United States.
The New York Post reported that the suspect’s keys and credit card were found at the crime scene.
Stoking The Flames Of Racial Tensions
News headlines seem to be flooded with stories about increasing racial tensions. Many on the left claim that racism is a “systemic” problem in the United States that has been present since its founding. This widespread problem, according to the progressives, must be confronted by exposing “microaggressions,” defunding the police, and labeling groups of people “inherently racist” based on their skin color.
In the name of “promoting racial equity in the criminal legal system,” lawmakers in Washinton State even introduced a bill to soften the penalty for “drive-by-shootings” claiming that the current law is racist against young black men.
The current tactic to supposedly curb so-called “systemic racism” has overwhelming worked to stoke and exacerbate both racial tensions and brazen lawlessness.
Jack Hibbs, the founder and senior Pastor of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills, in a recent podcast, explained that Jesus forewarned that this racial tension would increase in the time prior to His return.
“In verse seven [of Matthew 24, Jesus] says, ‘nation will rise against nation.’ Those of you who are Bible students should mark this right now; the word nation is the word ‘ethnos’ in Greek—it’s where we get the word ethnicity or ethnic groups,” he described.
“Jesus said, one of the indicators of the last days is that ethnicities will divide from one another, and they will war against each other,” Pastor Hibbs continued. “You know what? Not only is that happening, but the world that you and I live in—it’s stoking the flames of that. It’s as though we are hell-bent on a course to destroy ourselves as a culture. And of course, we are! A culture without God is a destructive culture.”
“It’s amazing to me that the news media, the print media, radio, songs, and movies, are stoking the angst that white should hate blacks, black should hate hispanics—fill in the blank,” he stressed.
“Go look at the book of revelation; the Bible says in heaven, there are those from every kindred, tribe, tongue, and nation of the earth,” he explained. “So listen, if you’re a racist or want to be like that, you’re not going to enjoy heaven. You’re not going to be happy there.”
Hibbs underscored that “when there’s no Jesus in your heart, you parse yourselves up, you divide, you get into little clicks and groups—God hates that.”
Christians also need to take heed of Christ’s warning, Hibbs reiterated, “Jesus said, watch out! Racism is going to be on the great increase and it will be one of the signs of the times.”
The massive increase in brazen crimes and lack of accountability is also Biblically significant. Matthew chapter 24 also states that in the time prior to Jesus’ return, the love of “iniquity shall abound” (Matt. 24:12). The word “iniquity” comes from the Greek word “anomia,” which means to be without law, not because there are no laws, but because laws are being flagrantly violated.
